ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,591, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Analytical attack graph abstraction for resource-efficiencies" was invented by Nimrod Busany (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dan Klein (Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel) and Rafi Shalom (Givatayim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations include methods, systems, computer-readable storage medium for mitigating cyber security risk of an enterprise network. A method includes: receiving an initial analytic attack graph (AAG) that is representative of paths within the enterprise network with respect to at least one target asset, the initial AAG comprising nodes and ...